Who gives a sh*t if it deters their ignorant persons?! Equally as many will be attracted by the possibility of digital privacy in payments. They can characterise it how they want and it will make many grand statements possible, but mean absolutely ZERO.

Value is value. It either has it and will be used or it doesn't. Decentralised and widely distributed systems don't need approval. It may be hard to see from the present vantage point but I am sure in a very short time frame it will be "self evident".

This week Queen of the South rementioned cyptocurrency "Tieria" that you use for hiding money, and buy from "offshore banks" and use through banks and hard drives! The banks pretty much controlled your assets on hardward (keyboards) they owned where you entered your 54 digit passwords as ultimate protection!

They cannot even mention a real one like Monera, Zcash, (Wasabi Wallet), Tor Network, etc because they are too scared of tipping people off to reality. You have to be a missive idiot to believe any portion of what they said could be workable for financial privacy.
Your are winning when your billions of dollars opponent needs to use counterintelligence methods in prime time TV to limit your capture of the idea space.